ENGLEWOOD, Colo. & ALISO VIEJO, Calif. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — April 9, 2014 —
To meet the growing demand for Microsemi Corporation’s (Nasdaq:
MSCC)
leading FPGA solutions, Arrow Electronics, Inc. today announced its “On
Ramp” seminars. The highly technical seminars are an innovative
engineering support approach that delivers training directly to
Microsemi’s customer sites and customizes the content based on their
specific needs and requirements to solve new field-programmable gate
array-based design challenges. The seminars are designed to provide
in-depth training on Microsemi’s SmartFusion®2 system-on-chip FPGA and
IGLOO®2 FPGA product families to system architects and designers.

Available immediately, these practical tutorials allow customers to
leverage the two companies’ combined expertise on system-on-chips and
integrated circuits while tapping into experienced, knowledgeable Arrow
engineering support. Seminars also can provide insight into Microsemi’s
other solutions, such as timing, synchronization and radio frequency.

Arrow invites every system architect and designer in the North America
market to schedule a customizable technical training that will be led by
its team of field application engineers and centralized engineering
experts. Each customer will receive hands-on training that includes a
review of the products and architecture, as well as an overview of the
tools’ flow using Microsemi evaluation and development systems that
demonstrate the mainstream features of the SmartFusion2 and IGLOO2
product families. To request an on-site seminar, visit
http://www.arrownac.com/microsemi.

“Arrow recognizes the value of Microsemi’s mainstream FPGAs that enable
customers to develop unique solutions for today’s demanding system
requirements,” said Aiden Mitchell, vice president of Americas supplier
services within the global components business of Arrow. “The On Ramp
seminars will help customers accelerate their system definition and
kick-start their FPGA designs, in addition to providing power and timing
solutions from Microsemi. We look forward to extending and dedicating
our intelligent systems resources to best serve the mainstream
integrated circuit market opportunities.”

Microsemi award-winning SmartFusion2 SoC FPGA and IGLOO2 FPGA product
lines offer a proven and comprehensive range of mainstream features that
include midsize lookup table-based FPGA fabrics,
serializer/deserializer, high-speed inputs and outputs, digital signal
processors and math blocks. With these beneficial features, Microsemi
FPGAs deliver cost-effective solutions for designers requiring
differentiation for their end product. By utilizing Microsemi’s
low-power consumption, best-in-class security technology and
high-reliability integrated circuit devices, manufacturers are able to
build competitive products to gain a significant market advantage. The
comprehensive features offered from Microsemi FPGAs enable a broader
range of mainstream applications to leverage these benefits while
realizing one of the lowest costs of ownership relative to other
integrated circuits with similar capabilities.

“Through the combined technology and sales support strengths of Arrow
and Microsemi, we can intensify our reach and influence with customers
who can best take advantage of the mainstream features,
total-cost-of-ownership, time-to-market and differentiated product
benefits Microsemi solutions offer,” said Mark Burton, director of
strategic distribution at Microsemi. “More and more system architects
and system developers are seeing Microsemi SoCs and FPGAs as highly
reliable, winning alternatives to compete successfully in the mainstream
market. Arrow’s new on-site seminars add a valuable design resource that
enables customers to get hands-on experience and first-hand knowledge of
Microsemi FPGAs as a mainstream alternative to competitive solutions.”

Microsemi’s IGLOO2 FPGAs continue the company’s focus on addressing the
needs of today’s cost-optimized integrated circuit markets by providing
a lookup table-based fabric, 5G transceivers, high speed general purpose
input/output, block RAM, a high-performance memory subsystem, and
digital signal processor blocks in a differentiated, cost- and
power-optimized architecture. According to Microsemi, this
next-generation IGLOO2 architecture offers up to five times more logic
density and three times more fabric performance than its predecessors
and combines a nonvolatile flash-based fabric with the highest number of
general purpose input outputs, 5G serializer/deserializer interfaces and
peripheral component interconnect express end points when compared to
other products in its class. IGLOO2 FPGAs offer best-in-class feature
integration coupled with the one of the lowest power, highest
reliability and most advanced security in the industry.

About Microsemi

Microsemi Corporation (Nasdaq:
MSCC) offers a comprehensive portfolio of
semiconductor and system solutions for communications, defense and
security, aerospace and industrial markets. Products include
high-performance and radiation-hardened analog mixed-signal integrated
circuits, FPGAs, SoCs and application-specified integrated circuits;
power management products; timing and synchronization devices and
precise time solutions, setting a standard for time; voice processing
devices; radio frequency solutions; discrete components; security
technologies and scalable anti-tamper products; Power-over-Ethernet
integrated circuits and midspans; as well as custom design capabilities
and services. Microsemi is headquartered in Aliso Viejo, Calif., and has
approximately 3,400 employees globally. Learn more at
www.microsemi.com .